How long does it take to read Gorky Park?
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith takes about 7 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Arkady Renko octology
Next: Polar Star
About 7 hours 12 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1981. 393 pages, about 108,075 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 50 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI and New York police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fur dealer. Meanwhile, Arkady is falling in love with a beautiful, headstrong dissident for whom he may risk everything... Rich in insight, powerfully written, unrelentingly suspenseful, and impeccable in its portrayal of Moscow life, here is Gorky Park.
Subjects: Fiction, Police, Arkady Renko (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, thrillers, general, Moscow (russia), fiction
